interpretivist theories of religion

Question 1

what are interpretivists interested in?

Answer 1

-interprevists look at the effect that religion has on individuals and how some items become sacred
e.g shroud of turin old piece of cloth

Question 2

what does berger say

Answer 2

-religion provides universal meaning of the world that helps people make sense of the world

Question 3

how does berger say religion helps people understand the world

Answer 3

-make sense of inexplicable and fundamental quetsions ab human experience
-e.g life and death or suffering

Question 4

how is religion a canopy

Answer 4

provides a shield from difficult aspects of life

Question 5

what does stark and bainbridge

Answer 5

religion meets needs of indivdiuals when sense of order is disrupted
-provides hope and compensates suffering
-provides stability

Question 6

how to evaluate interpretevists theories

Answer 6

-may have lost its canopy as its lost key role in society
-science and rational thinking displaced religion and gave understanding of world leading to disenchantment
-religion has contirbuted to wars and genocides